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Saturday, September 5, 2015

Carpe Diem Utabukuro #9 Ruth Yarrow

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,It's time
again for an episode of Utabukuro in which I ask you to choose a favorite or
special haiku or tanka with memories. You can choose a haiku or tanka by
yourself, a classical or non-classical haiku or tanka by the poet or poetess of
your own choice. No prompt or theme to
follow just free choice.After
sharing your favorite haiku or tanka please tell us why you have chosen that
haiku or tanka. And then write an all new haiku or tanka inspired on the haiku
or tanka you have chosen.

This week I have had some trouble to find a haiku poet/ess for this episode of Utabukuro, but finally I found a few nice haiku by a haiku poetess named "Ruth Yarrow". I searched the Internet and found a lot of information about Ruth Yarrow (1939 - ) and a great list of haiku written by her. Of course I have read them and I really was caught by one of her haiku which I will share here as my favorite haiku by Ruth Yarrow:

Ruth Yarrow
was born in 1939 in southern New Jersey and grew up in small college towns from
North Dakota to Ohio. In the 1950s, a nature study camp she attended in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia led her to choose Antioch College in Ohio for
its strong environmental education program. She taught science with the Peace
Corps in Ghana, and then earned a Masters degree in ecology from Cornell
University.

While on the
environmental studies faculty of Stockton State College in New Jersey in the
early 70s she taught a course on the natural world seen through world
literature. In this class she asked her students to write haiku and got hooked
herself. She taught ecology in colleges and environmental centers for many
years while volunteering with such organizations as the Nuclear Weapons Freeze
Campaign.

When their
two children fledged, she and her husband Mike moved to the Pacific Northwest
where they reveled in mountain backpacking. In Seattle, Ruth worked with
Physicians for Social Responsibility for nuclear waste cleanup and with the
Fellowship of Reconciliation on peace and justice.

After her
husband died in 2014, Ruth moved back to Ithaca, New York to be near her
children and grandchildren. Ruth has had more than 650 haiku in the major
journals and five books of haiku published. She has given readings and
workshops, judged contests, and served as an editor and Haiku Society of
America regional coordinator. She says that writing haiku helps her be aware of
the richness of life.
Ruth Yarrow
is now the honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California
State Library in Sacramento, for the season 2015-2016.

This haiku is first a beauty ... I can see the scene in front of my eyes, that sparkling sunlight as the drips from the paddles are falling and breaking the reflection ... such a fragile image. It brought a nice haiku written by Chiyo-Ni in my mind:

Basho (1644-1694) once said:

[...] “When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.” [...]

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